This 5-Year-Old Genius Just Aced A Computer Science Test From Microsoft; The boy, now 6, is officially a Microsoft Certified Professional which is highly regarded in the information technology industry: BusinessInsider

Prospects for growth: An interview with Robert Solow; The economist who won a Nobel Prize for advancing our understanding of technology looks at the past and future of productivity-led growth.: McKinsey

The Man Who Made the Modern Music Industry; Ralph Peer became the father of country through sheer commercial calculation: Southern folk music, he realized, was a vast untapped well of copyright-free songs: WSJ

The Life of Ivan Pavlov: His discoveries fueled grandiose hopes of curing psychiatric illness and breeding humans with more refined nervous systems—in short, of saving the world through physiology. WSJ

Nike’s Martin Lotti on Just Doing It; The Nike Football vice president and creative director talks about the importance of design, the future of shoes and the place where he’s happiest: WSJ

John Kotter (2001): What Leaders Really Do; The idea of getting people moving in the same direction appears to be an organizational problem. But what executives need to do is not organize people but align them. HBR

Galleons and gunships: Pacific history has been defined by bullies enforcing their rules: Economist

Large family businesses are in decline in Spain, but their ability to innovate has renewed interest in the sector. CampedenFB

Finding Our Place in the Stars; The physicist who kept the ‘Interstellar’ science sharp talks about black holes, space travel and his optimistic vision of human possibility. WSJ

The Classical Roots of ‘The Hunger Games’; The blockbuster film franchise reaches back to the myth of Theseus, ancient Greece and Rome, and the very foundations of Western culture: WSJ

Do You Want To Know About Your Brain? New research suggests many peopledon’t think that much about brain science. Should they? NYTimes

How ColaLife learned to think outside the crate; The award-winning charity used to distribute medicines packaged with Coke bottles to remote rural areas, but it had to adapt and move on as it became more successful: Guardian

Demand-based pricing strategy: A matter of avoidance or appreciation; Uber reintroduced the world to the basic economic theory of dynamic pricing when demand and supply are at play, naming it “surge pricing”. Nation

A Malaysian company called Heart and Shawl is using e-commerce to change the way headscarves are priced and the way they are acquired by Muslim women. TheStar

‘The Art of Things’: Pioneering Product Design; “The industrial revolution was made by engineers,” she writes. “Today it is the designers who are building machines.”: WSJ

Spreading deflation across East Asia threatens fresh debt crisis; Asia’s currency skirmishes are happening in a region of festering grievances and territorial disputes, with no Nato-style security structure to dampen down fires: Telegraph

Corporate buybacks fuel all-time highs – but for how long? US companies will buy $450bn of their stock this year, but when will this become too expensive? FT

Regulation: Banks count the risks and rewards; Crackdown on money laundering threatens to leave parts of developing world cut off from global finance: FT

Mexico Hit by Unrest and Scandal; Mexico’s Spreading Unrest and Sense of Lawlessness Are Shaping Up as Major Political and Economic Challenges to President Enrique Peña Nieto: WSJ

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What Steve Wozniak Got Wrong About The iPhone 6; Apple is almost never first-to-market in any product category. Their strategy is to come up with dramatic, generational improvements to products that others have done not as well. BusinessInsider

There Will Be Blood – How The Fed Has Flooded The Shale Patch With Junk Debt: ZeroHedge

The Fall of a National Champion: Petróleo Brasileiro offers an epic lesson in how to squander a windfall. Petrobras Scandal Widens, Earnings Delayed; Former Engineering Director at Brazil’s Oil Firm Arrested Along With 17 Others; Shares Plunge: WSJ1, WSJ2

Cotton stockpiles are swelling so large that there will be enough in global warehouses to make about 23 billion pairs of jeans, or three for every person on the planet. The glut sent prices to a five-year low: Bloomberg

The New Breed of High-Performance Wool Clothing; Long a tried-and-true textile for outdoor apparel, wool is getting engineered for higher performance by companies like Voormi, Duckworth and others: WSJ

Inventure Foods has succeeded when it comes to healthier snacks and even healthier margins: Forbes

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